The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 38
The barrel floated away to a great distance, and at last it floated close up to a monastery.
Who acts: barrel, last · What happens: float away, float, close up · To what, where: monastery
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barrel, last), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | nsubj |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 floated | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 distance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 distance | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 distance | amod |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 floated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 floated | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 floated | nsubj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 last | nsubj |
| 14 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 floated | conj |
| 15 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 floated | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 close | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 monastery | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 monastery | det |
| 19 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float away | past | the barrel | to a great distance; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to distance=Destination | ||||
| 2 | float | past | last | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | close up | infinitive | last not said here | a monastery | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to monastery=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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